An American Mastiff. Newly released intelligence documents revealed that between 2008 and 2011 the U.S. National Security Agency and the U.K. Government Communications Headquarters tapped the phones of a former Israeli prime minister, the vice president of the European Commission, the French petroleum company Total, the German Embassy in Rwanda, Unicef, the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research, the Taliban’s ministry of refugee affairs, and an Estonian “Skype security team.” An independent advisory panel released a report to President Barack Obama recommending new restrictions on the NSA’s domestic wiretapping; a federal district judge ruled in a lawsuit that the NSA’s phone-surveillance program was likely unconstitutional and ordered the government to destroy the phone records of two plaintiffs; the British
Weekly Review
Weekly Review
Weekly Review
An American Mastiff. Newly released intelligence documents revealed that between 2008 and 2011 the U.S. National Security Agency and the U.K. Government Communications Headquarters tapped the phones of a former Israeli prime minister, the vice president of the European Commission, the French petroleum company Total, the German Embassy in Rwanda, Unicef, the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research, the Taliban’s ministry of refugee affairs, and an Estonian “Skype security team.” An independent advisory panel released a report to President Barack Obama recommending new restrictions on the NSA’s domestic wiretapping; a federal district judge ruled in a lawsuit that the NSA’s phone-surveillance program was likely unconstitutional and ordered the government to destroy the phone records of two plaintiffs; the British